Wilson v. Hogan’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2025
21 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Bego v. Gordon · Degen v. Bayman · Burmeister v. Youngstrom · Samuelson v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad · High-Grade Oil Co., Inc. v. Sommer
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to have consented to suit in the same manner that any other party may be sued.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In general, the doctrine of sovereign immunity ... means that the governing acts of the state, its agencies and other public entities cannot be attacked in court without the state's consent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he negligent acts of public employees are not shielded by sovereign immunity when the employees are acting in a merely ministerial, rather than discretionary capacity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.